# List of IIT Bombay people

This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

## Notable Faculty

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| Amit Agrawal | Institute chair professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Ashwin Gumaste | Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee and largest technology transfer between IIT and industry (Carrier Ethernet Switch Router) |
| Dipan Ghosh | Deputy Director from 2005 to 2006 | Theoretical physicist, originator of the Majumdar–Ghosh model. |
| Deepak B. Phatak | | Computer scientist, Padma Shri award winner |
| Hemchandra Kekre | Head of Computer Science Department, 1978 to 1984 | Computer scientist |
| G. Naresh Patwari | | Chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Manohar Vartak | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics | Mathematician |
| N. K. Naik | Professor | Aerospace engineer |
| Narayan R. Kamath | Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineer |
| Pramod P. Wangikar | Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering | Bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate |
| Ram Puniyani | Former Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering | Biomedical engineer |
| Ranjith Padinhateeri | Dr. PV Sukhatme Chair Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering | The National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18 |
| Ravi Poovaiah | Professor at IDC School of Design | Co-designed the Indian EVM |
| Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Assistant Professor on contract from 2010 to 2019 | Physicist |
| Devang Vipin Khakhar | Professor Chemical Engineering at IITB | Former director of IIT Bombay |

## Notable Alumini
### Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability |
| Jag Mundhra | 1968 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Film director |
| Mansoor ali Khan | | | Film director |
| Nitesh Tiwari | 1996 | B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) | Film director and screenwriter |
| Sharada Srinivasan | 1987 | B.Tech. Engineering Physics | Archaeologist |
| Rajnesh Domalpalli | 1984 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Film director |
| Satyendra Pakhale | 1991 | M.Des. | Industrial Designer, Architect |
| Udaya Kumar | 2003; 2010 | M.Des., Ph.D. | Head of the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati |
| Vipul Goyal | 2008 | B.Tech., M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Stand-up comedian |
| Sridhar Rangayan | 1986 | M.Des, IDC | Director and Producer |
| Sameer Saxena | 2006 | B.Tech. | Actor, Director and Producer. Former CCO at TVF |

### Business

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability |
| Anil Kumar | | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, later convicted of insider trading |
| Ashish Chauhan | 1989 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Stock Exchange of India |
| Bhavish Aggarwal | 2008 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Co-founder of Ola Cabs |
| Lalit Keshre | 2006 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Co-founder & CEO at Groww |
| Ritesh Arora | 2006 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack |
| Nakul Aggarwal | 2006 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Co-founder and CTO of BrowserStack |
| Beerud Sheth | 1991 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Co-Founder and CEO of Gupshup |
| Ankit Mehta | 2005 | B.Tech. & M.Tech.(Mechanical Engineering) | Co-Founder and CEO of ideaForge |
| Karthik Ganapathy | 1993 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Vice President and Co-founder of BillDesk |
| Akhil Gupta | 2005 | B.Tech. & M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Co-founder and CTO of NoBroker |
| Bharat Desai | 1975 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founder of Syntel |
| Kanwal Rekhi | 1967 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Venture capitalist; Co-founder of Excelan |
| Nandan Nilekani | 1978 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Co-founder of Infosys |
| Parag Agrawal | 2005 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Chief Executive Officer of Twitter |
| Parag Saxena | 1977 | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of New Silk Route |
| Rahul Yadav | | Joined with B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) Later dropped out. | Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Housing.com |
| Rajiv L. Gupta | 1967 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Chairman of Aptiv |
| Ramani Ayer | 1969 | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Hartford |
| Romesh Wadhwani | 1969 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founder of Symphony Technology Group |
| Salil Parekh | 1986 | B.Tech. (Aeronautical Engineering) | Chief Executive Officer of Infosys |
| Subrah Iyar | 1981 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Co-founder of WebEx |
| Victor Menezes | 1970 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup |

### Politics, Law, and Civil Services

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability |
| Colin Gonsalves | 1975 | B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) | Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India |
| Jairaj Phatak | | | Former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai |
| Jairam Ramesh | 1975 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Former Minister of Rural Development and Member of Parliament |
| Jay Narayan Vyas | | | Former Member of the Legislative Assembly |
| Manohar Parrikar | 1978 | B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) | Former Chief Minister of Goa and Minister of Defence |
| Sanjiv Bhatt | 1985 | | Former Indian Police Service officer |
| Sharjeel Imam | 2010 | B.Tech., M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) | Activist |
| Sheel Kant Sharma | 1971; 1974 | M.Sc. (Physics); Ph.D. (Physics) | Former Secretary General of SAARC |

### Science and technology

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
| Apoorva D. Patel | | M.Sc. (Physics) | Physicist | |
| Hemchandra Kekre | | M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay | |
| C. V. Seshadri | | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Former chair of chemical engineering at IIT Kanpur | |
| S. Shankar Sastry, | 1977 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley | [45] [46] |
| K. S. Dasgupta | | Ph.D. | former Director of the IIST | |
| Pranav Mistry | 2005 | M. Sc. | Computer Scientist and Inventor | |
| Narendra Karmarkar | 1978 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Mathematician | |
| Pratim Biswas | 1980 | | Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Ramakrishna V. Hosur | 1973 | M.Sc. (Chemistry) | | |
| Ravindran Kannan | 1974 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Mathematician; Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize and Knuth prize | |
| Sarita Adve | 1987 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Subhash Khot | 1999 | | Computer scientist | |
| Suhas Patankar | 1965 | M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Mechanical Engineer | |
| T. V. Raman | 1989 | M.Sc. (Mathematics) | Computer scientist | |

### Sports

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
| Ajay Khare | | M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Silver Medal for India at Bridge Asian Games, 2022. | |

### Others

* Achyut Godbole, businessman and writer
* Ajit Ranade, economist and vice chancellor of Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics, Pune
* Anil Kamath, Indian-American computer scientist
* Anil Kumar, Indian-American businessman
* Arun Netravali, Indian-American computer engineer and former president of Bell Laboratories
* Atul Tandon, management academic and former director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
* Avinash Deshpande, astrophysicist and professor of physics at Raman Research Institute
* Beheruz Sethna, Indian-American business academic
* Dharmendra Modha, Indian-American computer scientist
* Dinesh Mohan, honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
* Dulal Panda, cell biologist and chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
* Gauranga Das, monk and spiritual leader at ISKCON and author
* George Varghese, Indian-American computer scientist
* Lalit Surajmal Kanodia, entrepreneur and chairman of Datamatics
* Madan Rao, condensed matter and biophysicist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
* Madhavan Mukund, director and professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute
* Manas Kumar Santra, cell biologist and biochemist at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
* Narendra Kumar, theoretical physicist
* Nitin Nohria, Indian-American academic and former dean of Harvard Business School
* N. K. Naik, aerospace engineer and professor emeritus at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
* P. P. Parikh, Indian engineer
* Prashant Ranade, Indian-American business executive and former co-chair of Syntel
* Pravin Krishna, Indian-American economist
* Rajive Bagrodia, Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
* Ranjan Raj, actor
* Sadanand Joshi, Indian-American petroleum engineer and president of Joshi Technologies International, Inc
* Sudheendra Kulkarni, politician and columnist
* Suresh P. Sethi, Indian-American engineer and academic
* Umesh Waghmare, theoretical physicist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
* Vikas Joshi, founder of Harbinger group
* Vinay K. Nandicoor, immunologist and the director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
* Viral Acharya, economist and former deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India
* Virendra Gupta, founder at VerSe Innovation
* V. V. Chari, Indian-American economist and professor at University of Minnesota